Triggers

Creating Behavior That Lasts--becoming the Person You Want to Be

paperback, 272 pages

Published March 21, 2016 by Currency.

ISBN:
978-0-451-49786-4
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Executive coach and psychologist Marshall Goldsmith discusses the emotional triggers that set off a reaction or a behavior in us that often works to our detriment. Do you find that at times you suddenly become defensive or enraged by an idle comment from a colleague? Or that your temper rises when another car cuts you off in traffic? Your reactions don't occur in a vacuum. They are the result of emotional and psychological triggers that often happen only in specific settings -- at meetings, or in competitive situations, or with a specific person who rubs you the wrong way, or when you feel under particular pressure. Being able to recognize those triggers and understand how the environment affects our behavior is key to controlling our responses and managing others at work and in life. Make no mistake -- change is hard. And the starting point is the willingness to accept …

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This was an interesting take on one part of the habit-building or behavioral change process. This book brings a bit of understanding how and why triggers plays a major part in building/breaking habits and some mitigation steps to improve our responses to triggers.
> “Fate is the hand of cards we’ve been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.”

If you're in the process of looking to make a new habit or break an old one, this book definitely gives you a process to do that. I find the Daily Questions process very interesting and I'm looking forward to implementing it.

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